• Plant Ecophysiologist
  • climate change
  • physiology
  • evolution

• Ecosystem Ecologist
  • global change

• Shepherd Research:
  • aquaponics
  • urban tree ecology
  • ?????

• It is up to YOU to seek help when needed and/or inform me of any issues
  • I can’t help if I dont know what is going on
  • You are NOT bothering me!

• Email is the best way to contact me outside of class
  • Make sure your question in not answered in the syllabus!

• Office Student Hours are awesome, I promise!
  • There will be no judgement, we will just get to work
  • Alternative: You can always swipe me in at Ram’s Den

• In Class: Keep the lines of communication flowing!
  • Not enough days for homework, missing lecture slides, etc.

• Class attendance correlates with high performance
  • Study after study after study shows that class attendance is the most important factor contributing to academic success

• Use these as your study guides. Each one is a concept (not a definition).
  • I use them to write the exam
  • Generally, you should be able to write 2-3 sentences about a # (with no notes)
  • Create a checklist - cross them off as you study
  • Use student hours (or email) for ones you don’t quite get
  • Start with #s and expand outward when studying

#FossilClues

#EvolutionTheories

#SharedAncestry

Fossils are glimpses into the past…

Cuvier’s finding refute the idea of species permanence

Scientists after Cuvier (i.e., Darwin) now had to account for extinction as fact

Example: Wooly Mammoths appear and then disappear in the fossil record.

I wish I was like six-foot-nine so I can get with Leoshi…

The fossil record lets us explore the ancestors that anything living (including us) evolved from